Base Install of CentOS/RHEL

You will be presented with a screen where you can choose the install process. Type: linux text [press Enter]

Skip the media test.

Choose your language, keyboard layout

Select Automatically partition. This will give you a small /boot partition and a large / partition which is fine for our purposes. Use GRUB boot loader.

On to the network settings. The default setting here is to configure the network interfaces with DHCP, but we are installing a server, so static IP addresses is what we want. Select manual address configuration and give your network card a static IP address. (e.g. 10.100.32.50)

Set the hostname manually, e.g. server1.example.com, and enter a gateway (e.g. 10.100.32.1) and up to three DNS servers.

Choose your time zone.

Give root a password.

Select the package 'Server' only. Deselect all others. We can install others later.

reboot

As CentOS boots you will presented with the “Setup Agent” screen.

Select “Firewall Configuration” and press “Run Tool”.

At “Firewall Configuration” select “Disabled” (for now), and for “SELinux” select “Disabled”.
( If you need to re-run setup agent; run as root 'setup' )